With the cabaret show "Die Kaktusblüte"
Once again, the Dresden cabaret troupe Die Kaktusblüte is on the pulse of the times, because times are changing—sometimes more, sometimes less—and so, in this “best-of” program, high-level politics and everyday nonsense collide once more.
Yet the cabaret faces stiff competition, as politics keeps trying to outdo it.
True to the motto: “Everyone does what they want, no one does what they’re supposed to, but everyone goes along with it”—today, opinion matters more than knowledge, and so the art of getting along with one another has itself become an art form.
No wonder, then, that this program revolves largely around education and school—and the associated excesses in our society. True to the motto: “If you’re open to everything, you can’t be completely sane.”
In the process,*Kaktusblüte* poses thought-provoking questions, such as what to do with a federal government that can’t get anything right.
At the traditional regulars’ table, you can find out what’s going on in schools and what would happen if girls and boys were taught separately.
The fact that Germany’s most popular vocal ensemble, the Humbsdorfer Haubenlerchen, turns out to be a group of career changers in the education sector due to the teacher shortage is sure to be a lot of fun—and not just for music lovers.
How do students today answer the question: What is democracy? And is there even an answer to the question of whether a 67-year-old teacher still has to help the children cross the street—or whether the children are the ones who have to help the teacher?
This “Best of” program, created to mark the 2026 Golden Künstlermagazin Awards, is likewise a timely assessment of the current state of affairs.
As always, Die Kaktusblüte guarantees traditional cabaret with sharp wordplay and musical parodies—prickly and sharp-tongued, humorous and thought-provoking.
